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Mineral Point Tribune. W. H. ft P. J. BESNBTT, Publishers. MINERAL point wi I!ees in their search for honey visit only one kind of flowers on the same trip. This is not accidental, but it is wise pro vision for preventing hybridization of different varieties from the pollen which bees always distribute in their journeys from flower to flower. Russia is going to have a railroad tun nel three miles long, at the cost of 3,500,- 000. Bhe has 15,000 miles of railway, but her only tunnel is 700 miles long. More great works of this kind are contemplat ed. and as Russian engineers are ignorant of tunnel making, there is a demand for foreign sk,ill. The new “brown” or “cocoa' powder is a departure in military affairs. Wood charcoal has given piece to anew mater ial, and the proportion of saltpeter and and sulphur has been changed. The new powder makes less smoke and is slower to explode when not confined. It has prov ed its efficiency,in the artillery, provid ed always that the guns are breech-load ers. A iili ent issue of the Electric Review gives the details of an invention that is destined to work a radical change in the hotel system of waking guests. It is an electrical annunciator, working both ways from rooms to office as well as office to rooms, and is particularly acceptable ns by its means one guest may be awakened in the morning without arousing every one else on the floor. An instantaneous alarm can also be sounded by it in every room in the hotel. — • 7~r The reports from all over the country show an increase in the general amount of business done, and a feeling of encouragement for the business future The feeling of encouragement has evi dently come to stay. It was with us last fall and in the winter, and would have received no discouragement had it not been for the unsettled feeling that grew out of the labor strikes and the agita tion of the eight-hour question. Now these questions are practically settled, business seems to l>e reviving and the | outlook is hopeful. The Sanitarian records an instance of flies acting as sanitary inspectors. In one of the rooms of a residence in an American city offensive odors were de tected, hut their exact, source could not 1 bo located. The carpets were raised, and a carpenter engaged to take up the entire floor. At this momenta friend who chanced to eonie in suggested that an appeal bo made to the instinct of the j fly. Two blue bottles were brought from 1 a neighboring stable, and the doors and \ windows of the room closed. The flies j soon settled upon one of the cracks in the floor, when the boards wore raised at this point a decomposed rat was found | nder the board. The cotton crop <>i the Tinted States for the year ending September 1, was 6,675,681 bales, averaging very nearly i 184 poundsto’ - 483.95 pounds) per hale, making a total of 11,183,000,000 pounds. Of this two-thirds or (’>(! per cent., or I, 330,103 bales, were exported to other j countries, viz., to (treat Britain, 2,535,213 bales, or 30 per cent, of all; to France 4OS,HUH bales, 6 1 1 per cent; to the rest of Europe, 1.301.071 bales. At an average price of !)' j cents per pound the total crop would be worth $302,000,000, 'and , the exported portion return to us $200,- 000,000. Of the total Crop ’>,358,431 ! bales went by water to ports in the United States; 1,150,185 bales were shipped overland lby railroad) to the northern States and Canada. Northern mills spun ”,102,544 hales; Southern mills .'.•■l,o;io bales. Sea island cotton ami,anted to 37,878 bales. V rumors feature in the National Mu seum in Washington in the zoological sec tion. of the department devoted to bird's eggs. It has about I’-’.OIK' birds eggs [lacked away in little trays' placed in cases along 'ln- walls of the building. The eggs in the collection vary in size from the tiniest humming bird to the giant bird of Madagascar. There is a little egg of a tiny humming bird lying in a dunum live nest. The humming bird that made the nest and laid the egg is the smallest bird in the world. The little egg has a length or long diameter of three tenths of an inch and a short diameter of three hundreths of an inch. The nest is one twentieth of an inch across one way and 92 100 the other. Thxuk is n curious custom among the negroes of Washington, of having burial societies; organizations for the ex elusive purpose of making a display at the funerals of those who belong to them. The average colored man will contem plate the hereafter with much les- dread if he is certain that his moral part w ill be conducted to the grave by a long proces sion of his friends and a brass band and this characteristic of the race has led to the organization of a number of societies among which there is considerable rival ry as to the demonstrations made at the funerals of then respective members. They are incorporated mult;- -nch lugu brious and lino sounding titles as -The sous and daughters of (teti.seniam." “The ancient and honorable order of the Gallileau Fisherman." The most devoted brethcren and sisters of the star of lietii them.' - and other- of a similar sort. TIIK LATEST TELEGRAMS WAS taxi. TOS. O.nb hotel in Washington ; entertain ing ten bridal couples, and another has twenty in charge. The secretary of war has given orders that Chief Mangos with two of his braves be sent with (Jeronimo to Fort Pick rns. The national supreme court has de cided that the law designed to regulate the railroad charges can not apply to the inter state traffic, as that would trend upon the constitutional powers of congress. The secretary of the interior has de cided that the marriage of single women who had a homestead entry will not de feat her right to make final proof and re ceive a title to the laud under the home stead law. The President has presented a hand some silver cup of nautical design to Captain Frank M. Wallace, of the British hark Monsita, for humane services in rescuing thecrew of the American schoon er Harm tt Jones, in March lasf. The commissioner of internal revenue has modified the regulations in regard to the oleomargarine law so as to make them conform to (lie attorney general that components of oleomargarine are subject to tax only when mady in imita tion or substance of butter. Bi't*EBINTKNI)KVr Jamison, of (he rail road mail service, has completed his an nual report lor the fiscal year ended Juno JO, last. Front the report it appears that at the close of the year the railway post offices numbered 871, occupying 435 whole cars and 1,701* apartments in ears. The aggregate length of railroad routes over which these cars run is 110,072 miles and the annual number of miles of rail road service performed by clerks was 100- 1)2:), <110. KOKKHt.N. Two German spies have been arrested in Paris. They admitted that they were making plans of the forts and routes for the German government. Advices from Rangoon say tlint officials j of Uurmah state that it will be impossi ble to subjugate that country under four years, and that a large army will be need ed to restore order. A PEOTorox. has been signed renewing diplomatic relations between Servia and Bulgaria, it provides for a treaty of ; commerce, and for (he reference of several dispute to n joint commission. Tin chief commissioner of police in \ London has issued orders forbidding a procession of unemployed workingmen simultaneously with the pageant of the 1 lord Mayor. A, telegram from Odessa says that the Russian consul at Varna has asked for the dispatch of a Russian war ship to that place to piotect the consulate and Russian residents from the violence of the populace. Tin French vice consul at Montreal, having lost heavily by the absconding of Rothschild at Toronto, is im active advo cate of reform in the extradition system between Canada and the Putted States. Tin, Herold, a German paper published in St. Petersburg, says that there are four hundred troops on board the Russian cruisers dispatched to \ arna, and that they have orders to occupy that city if (tie Russians who were illegally arrested are not, released. Tn y. Paris Figaro says it is expected that M. de Giers, Russian minister of foreigh affairs, will issue a circular to the powers declaring that active measure are necessary to terminate the anarchy prevailing in Bulgaria, on the ground that it is dangerous to the peace of the Balkan states and offensive to Russia. CRIMK AND CRIMINALS. Ili' Nuv 11. M kvku, of Memphis, has been acquitted ot the murder of W. B* Dono van the debaucher of his wife. Meyer will return to G* rmany with his children. •In the crow reservation, in Montana, u party of fifty Sioux made an attack on a Crow camp near the Sioux were driven off with the loss of live warriors, who were scalped. (ii oiioi T. Sen-Kit, ex clerk of the ('in cinuati borad of public works, has been held in $25,000 for defrauding the city. Uu his testimony James Morgan a meat her of the hoard was hi Id ill $2,000 for certifying fraudulent vouchers. Svn liii vv night, at Rockford, 111., Aug ust Valentins, aged 50, was set upon and beaten by David ('regain John Dixon and John Larin, young men, and died Mon day from his wounds. Creguu and his partners are in jail. The recent dynamite explosion in the house of Commissioner Collins, at Car torsville, tin., has been followed by the. indictment for attempt to murder Dr. T. [ 11. Baker, one of the foremost citizens i and his bro her tins, Mauiin Kkixky, engineer of the wild locomotive which cassed the disaster at Pine Bluff, (Vis,, was arested at Madison on Thursday on a charge of manslaughter and held in SI,S(H) bonds. The persons who were wounded are recovering. Form him.nam, the express messenger who was robbed on the San Francisco road, says the perpetrator gave his name ns Jim Cummings, the last of the Jesse James gang, a participant in the Blue cut train robbery, which yielded him over $1,500. \ m\n whose name is alleged to be A1 Kerr, is in jail at Springfield, charged with participating in the murder <>t Sta lion Agent Powers at Marshall 111., last September. The prisoner claims that his name i- Martin (’ratty, and his home is at Bloomington, 111. It is believed that Henry Peters, a missing witness in Haddock murder trial at Sioux Pity, was killed by the assassins to prevent his revealing tlieir names. A decomposed body found on the 4th inst. at Crescent. lowa, ami interred in the Potters' tick! at Council Blurts, was ex burned I uesday, and an examination of the clothing led to the almost complete indentiticat i,m of Peters. I iiK postutlicy inspectors engaged in inspecting th, accounts of Pol. Bolton, late superintendent of second class matter m the t hie ,go post ortice. are prepared to prove the embezzlement of ijc.'tV.’til. but they estimate the total deficit at tHki, based on his average speculations for three years. •tKNKKAI, V 1 IT S. J H Mi l Pina, a farmer in tho vicinity i of Mcndota. 111., has what h- claims to he ft petrified human heart. taken from a coffin in the cemetery at Troy Grove. The total number of students in Har vard I'niversity this year is 1,077. The freshman clast list bears 27!) names, the largest on record. There are twenty three Illinoisians n the college. V wooden idol, four feet high, is being < reeled as Middlebury, Connecticut, by a wealthy farmer named Elisha Gedney who is a Hecond Adventist. He insists that the image is Daniel. Mus.CoiiNi i.iA M. Stewart, widow of :h. millionaire merchant, A. T. Stewart, expired Monday morning in her marble palace at Thirty fourth street and Fifth avenue, New York. She was nearly 85 years of age. Abbanoeme.nts have been completed for unveiling Bartholdi’s statute in New York. Senator F.varts will make the presenta tion address and President Cleveland will reply. Chancey M. Depew will deliver the oration and Bishop Potter the bene diction. KIKES AM) CASUALTIES. \ fire at Farmington, Me., destroyed thirty- three dwellings.nineteen stores and three churches, valued at $200,000. Thi- Davis malt house at Watkins. N. Y., with a large amount of barley and malt. Sunday night. The loss is about SIOO,OOO. Monday ever.i*.„• at Mendon, Mich., five buildings were burned. The insurance foots up $"(,000. The Jordan block, at Murfesboro, iitin.i was destroyed by fire, Tuesday morning, causing a total loss of $100,000; insurance about one-half. Penoyaii Huos.’ bbw mill, at Oscoday, Mich., bunted Tuesday, midnight. Loss, $40,000; insurance, $30,000. Tin lire in the inountains near Head ing, Pa., has been extinguished, after 0.000 acre ■ of valuable timber land had been burned over. A number of cattle perished in the tlaraes. P.v the caving ia of a tunnel along the new ( roton aqueduct, near New York, the Chicago firm of Brown, Howard A Cos., siitfcrjtl a loss of SBO,OOO. A! i.oo-cabin near Flat Hock, Knox County Ky.. was burned Tuesday night, (lie wife and five children of William Poe, and Missi s Alice Barnes and Sallie Adams perished in the flames. Two freight trains on the St. Pan! road were in collision. Monday morning, at Frankville, Wig. The engines were de molished and the wreck caught lire, a dozen cars laden with lumber and barley being consumed. I). L. Johnson’s large flouring mill at Y'orkvitle. Mich., was burned, Monday morning about 1 o'clock. Loss, $18,000; insurance, SB,OOO. The fire was caused by overheated journals. At Cheboygan. Mich.. W.T. Smith’s mill was destroyed by fire, Sunday morning. Loss. $-0,000; insured for SII,OOO. Being out of reach of the fire department it was powerless to render help. The lum ber was all saved. Sixteen structures, including two hotel and the principal business houses, at Pocahontos. Va.. were destroyed Wednes day by an incendiary tire. One man perished in the thunes and other per sons arc reported missing. The financial loss is placed at $50,000. The limited express train on the St. Paul road which left Chicago Wednesday I evening ran into an open switch at Hio, Wisconsin, and was de.ailed. The cars at once took tire, and the injured passen gers were roasted. It is believed that at least thirteen lives were lost. Bishop Whipple and wife, of'Minnesota, who were on board, have arrived at St. Paul The School of Applied Science, erect ed in Cleveland with funds left by the late Leonard Case, was early Wednesday morning destroyed by tire, followed by explosions in the laboratory! The loss is about $200,000. and the insurance $15,- 000. Flames also wined out the Jordon block at Nashville Tennessee, valued at SIOO,OOO, sixteen butldiuge at Pocahon tas. Virginia, and a rolling mill of the Old Colony works at Fast Taunton Mass achusetts. Blondes and Brunet ■ London Standard. The business of examining the hair> eyes ard skin of fi.Kijo.rcj? pupils is not a holiday task to be lightly undertaken on a spare afternoon. How long it occupies is not stated, but examination of this number of little boy and girls has been made in Germany by Prof. Virchow: but it ia not very evident that his industrious anthropologistic labors are rewarded by results. He has only found out that what a tolerably observant traveler might have discovered for hitn-tlf: and the precise figures he gives are of little or no prac tical value. It appears that 13 2 -3(1 per cent, ot children in North Germany are blondes. 32 5 28 per cent, are blondes in Middle Germany, and 24 5-28 percent, in the South. The Uiver Main, it is point ed out, thus becomes au anthropological line of significance. In general, the further south one goes the more brunets ne meets South Bavaria mustering but It per cent, of blondes. Among 74,886 Hebrew children another table of figures shows the pure brunets outnumbered the pure blondes threefold. Whereas the re lation of the blondes to the brunets among tin' Christians is 31.8 to 14; that among the Jewish children is 11.21) to 42. The tolerably observant traveler afore said would have indeed, he often has — noted that blondes predominote to the north and brunets to the south; also that •lews are generally dark hatred as a rule Orient ials and people e f Oriental descent are so. The professor’s discoveries lack novelty. Fancies in Faux. Toll'do Hladf "Ono of tho pretties fans introduced this season." said a Toledo dealer in la dies’ articles this morning, "is called the ‘(-'lrveland.’and consists of either three or fi\• long ostrich 1 athers and a tew I tips with a handles of amber or mother ol pearl. It is very expensive, costing , from sl3 to $;!0 a" bow of ribbon with very large ends is tied around the handle. It is pretty and the name makes it fash i iounble. "The largest and most expensive fans are those of white or natural ostrich feathers with tortoise shell sticks. These cost $.1(1. Very beautiful are some of the hand painted ‘-ilk gauze, but even these usually have a bordeivof ostrich or mara bout featlo rs. France and Spain manu facture most of the fans which are ured both in Kngland and America. As far hack as tin. eighteenth century there were more than .‘•00 manufactories of fans in 1’ uis alone. \t that time the fan maker form ,1 into a guildi Ike the guilds of other trades and petitioned for ptivil - ,fs. which were willingly granted them. Two heads is better than one when, ex cept when there is but one pillow. A SICKENING CALAMITV Terrible Wreck of a “Limited” Train tin tlie St. Paul Road, Near Por tage. Wis. Twenty-two Persons Killed and the Bodies Roasted Before the Eyes of the Survivors. A HEARTRENDING SCENE. A dispatch from Portage. Wis., of Thursday says: Last night soon after midnight, the west bound limited was at East Hio Hiding, a small station about thirteen miles east of this city, on the main lino of the Chicago, Milwaukee A Ht. Paul road. There are two side tracks at the place, and at the time the train was dae there last night both were oc cupied by freights, one by a wild train and the other by train No. 14, Con ductc.- 11. Hankey, of this city which had just pulled in from the west to allow the lit.:’ited to pass. No. 14 was very long, and the conductor was at the head ot the train relying on the brakeman to attend to the switch. One report says the rear brakeman whose business it was to close the switch after the train, for some rea son neglected altogether to do so. The other, and the more probable story, is that he started back to close the switch, but before he could reach it the limited, which does not stop at any except at the large places, came tearing down grade at FIFTY MILKS AN HOUR, and loft the rails at the open switch. The siding is in a cut where the road curves so that the switch-light cannot be seen from the east until a train is within a few rods; so the engineer of the limited could not see the switch light turned wrong un til too lute to stop. The engine left the track and ran a short distance and brought up against the side of the cut, toppling oyer. The baggage car and two regular coaches followed, while four sleep ers kept the rails. The engine and sleep er that went off were badly smashed, and soon took FIRE FltOM THE STOVES. Engineer Little and Fireman Pagan crawled out from under the locomotive badly bruised and scalded. The baggage man had a leg broken. All passengers in the sleepers got out, uninjured, except slight bruises, but in one day-coach TWENTY-TWO WEBB PENNED IN and literally burned to death. Many others were injured by the severe ahak ing-up. The names of the victims are not yet known. The whole train excepting one sleeper, which they were aide to uncouple and draw away, was burned up. Supt. \V. O. Collins was on the east bound passenger No. 2, which was wait ing at the station a few miles this side of the wreck for the limited, and was soon on the scene. It was a most BOBBIIILE AMD SICKENING spectacle, the roasting people making the night hideous with their yells while by standers were unable to render assistance. It was the worst wreck ever known in the Northwest. STATEMENT OF PAHSKNGEKS. V commercial traveler who lost the trunks of samples in the burning baggage said: “The accident happened on (he hill this side of Hio. where there is a side track. There the south-bound freight passes the limited, which is bound north. The freight train had n.n on the switch and waited several minutes. The limited was due at 12-20. The last car of the freight train was so placed tiat it hid the switch light from the engineer of the limited, and the switch was not closed af ter the freight train had run on it. As the engine ran off the track. Engineer Thomas Little put on the air-brakes be fore the engine turned over. This partly stopped the train, but the baggage and mascara and the forward coach ran off entirely, and the first sle-per was half off the track before it stopped. The engi neer got a cut on the head and a bruised ankle, and the fireman was badly hurt, as was the baggageman. Wade Clark, of Oconomowoc, the brakeman on the lim ited. had a leg broken. THE CAKS CAUGHT FIRE at iCo and burned fiercely,the ma 1 beu, saved and the baggage burned. Conduct or Lucius Searle and the baggagemen were injured by the baggage falling on them. The first conch presented an ap palling spectacle. It was completely wrecked, and the passengers, with three exceptions, were wedged In by timbers so (hat they could not get out. These three exceptions were a man who had his leg broken and was bruised; a baby in arms. 4 or 5 months old, and a little girl tor 5 years old. The baby's mother was wedged in at the waist. The flames spread with great rapidity and in seven or eight minutes every shriek was hushed and the ear and its helpless inmates had become a smouldering mass. An attempt was made to uncouple the sleeping ours and pull them away from the flames, but the coupling had become blocked, so (he three sleepers were burned. None of the pas sengers in the sleepers were injured. It was a narrow escape, and if it had not been for the engineer’s presence of mind in putting on the airbrakes we would have fared badly. He saved our lives and the company ought to know it," He said that he had been traveling for eighteen years without an accident before. hits oy noKROB. 11. Liewenbach, a Milwaukee job prin ter, who was on tiie wrecked train, says the scene after the accident was foul harrowing. The passenger coach, which he says, contained from fifteen to twenty persons, was telescoped at both ends and the tire and smoko which envel oped the wreck prevented the imprison ed and injured passengers fioni escaping. Passengers from the sleep ers gathered around the blazing cars, but they -were powerless to render assistamce. Men and women could be seen tearing their hair while tho air w;is tilled with the frightful screams of the doomed. One heavy woman, in particular. he say*. tore up-one of the - seats, with almost superhuman strength, and endeavored to break her way out of the darning pyre, but her strength soon | failed and she fell to door and met a horrible death. Only three persons escaped from the passenger car. Mr. Liewenbach says a man and two children. The man was observed ns he forced his way through the ventilator on top of the car. with all the clothing burned from his body from the waist downward and h,is dt-sh roasted and bleeding from cuts in j dieted by broken glass, livery one of I the wrecked cars were consumed with the exception of the last sleeper, which ' was cut away from the flaming pile. Ail ; the bodies of the victims were burned in i I the wreck. GETTING ON IN THE WORM'. 1 A Subject uf Interest to Women*as Well as the Lords of Creation. Indianapolis Journal The underlying cause of human dis content and unrest, whether manifested by the individual or the many, is a morbid i desire to he “happy.” Many a man would I be happy indeed were it not that he miss es (rue happiness in the feverish search ! for it. Happiness is like rest found with j out effort and denied to such as forever | seek it instead of enjoying it. The poor ! man is not happy because he wishes to be rich, imagining that riches would bring ' peace. The rich man is not happy for i even more reasons than tne poorer man is not. He is unhappy because he is not richer; because he fears that his riches will take wings and get away from him; I because his neighbor has more than he has; because he has failed to make as much as he expected in his last specula tion, or because he lost instead of make ing. All these and innumerable other i reasons conspire to trouble the man of I wealth. But the poor man says: “Give me his possessions and 1 will • take care of happiness.” There is a delusion in this, and if there were not the plan of this world would be a very Imperfect one. It cannot bo that its architect should lay it out on the nar raw plan that none should be happy un less rich. The fate of humanity under! such cruel conditions would be deplorable.! Only a very few of (he vast number of mankind would then stand any chance of : an existence that would bs tolerable.] That this is a mistake needs no argmont The law of common sense, the law of Gou I as revealed In the Bible, the law of com | pensation—all law is against such a mou- | strous condition to happiness. It is not saying too much to say that the poor may jbe as happy as the rich. There are ! troubles and temptations that come to | the rich that the poor know nothing of. There are sleepless nights in the mansion | that are unknown in the cottage, and of | ten when least expected, the banker whom 1 many a poor man envies may in turn en vy the man who attends to his horses for ! the very peace of mind which he enjoys ! and to which the master is strangir. Men | living in mansions have often lived for years with the shadow of bankruptcy hanging over them, from which they j would only too gladly escape and welcome honest poverty. It were foolish to argue 1 against the comforts that wealth can pro vide, but wealth alone cannot even buy ! peace to say nothing of happiness. Wealth is often a curse to the man who, relieved of its responsibility, would be happy. But if a man would be rich and feels that he cannot be happy until he is in possession of more goods than his fel- j lows, there is a way to become so. ((ni ls to be mean, stingy, grasping intent ■ ever on gaining more and spending less. He can stint himself and family, deny his wife and children the privileges that I are cheerfully accord and the little one* of j poorer men, and in every way make him j self and family bend to the severest cou | ditions that he has devised. This is one of the ways to wealth and a way that is not likely to commend itself to honest ! men. Then there are other roads to the i accumulation of wealth. A man may be come rich by theft, fraud, by specula tion and various other ways more or less j questionable. But it is not this kind of wealth that the poor man envies, for ho could not accept it under the conditions j required. Besides, as a rule, with few ex : oeptions, the wealth acquired in a dishon- I oralfie way. cannot be retained, and slips ! almost as quick as it came. But it will not do for the poor man to ■ conclude that all wealth is acquired in a r way that can not be thoroughly houor | able. Many a man is wealthy and real- j ly happy in its poesession, because he i got it in away that no man can question There are thousands of men who have j great possessions and who have come up from poverty by their own exertions, j Their example, too, may he followed by j such ns would become rich. They got a i start by practicing decent economies and !by saving where others wasted. With the I money thus saved they got their start | that so many long for. And from the start it became easier and still easier to get more, until at last the goal of riches was reached before it was realized. The great majority of merchants and manu i factnrers in this country started as poor i men, just as the young mechanic of to j day is starting in life. There are men who 'know how it is themselves,’ and with 1 a few exceptions are glad to encourage and assist others who show a disposition ito follow their example, u truth, the world of business and traffle is ever on the watch for just such m- n. | i I i ! I i | I i j 1 i 1 I I ■ I I [ A Base riot. Detroit Free Pros*. The other day, as two well-known citi zens wore standing together in the corri dor of the post office' one happened to notice that a postal card held in the lingers of the other was directed to the holder. “Why, how does this come?" was asked. “Do yon write letters to yourself f“ •Tn this case, yes," was the answer “That’s fnnny.” “Well, not so very. See the oilier side.’’ He held it np and the other citizen read: Bkoyheii lli.ank : There will he a meeting of the I. (). O. S. 8., No. 387, at the hall on the evening of Oct. 20, to transact special business. Members not present well be lined f. la. ,1. ('abet, Sec. “Yes, but I don't exactly catch on," protested the innocent. “Oh. you tion't! Well, 1 got the cards printed myself. The society is all a myth. When 1 want to get out of an evening I direct one of these postals to my house. When I reach home my wife hands it tome with a sigh. I offer to stay at home and stand the tine of $l5, but she wont have it that way. That's all, my friend- except that the same scheme is worked by hundreds of oth ers, and our poor deluded wives haven't nmbled to the racket yet." An Obstacle to Physical Well He Die. Plivsielans rightly characterize consriplalon as an i Wsliuate impediment to the welfare of the tardy Tim performance of the mere Important functions, such ns indigestion, biliary secretion amt ae active circulation of the blood, are mter nipi.s h> it in a greater or loss degreee, os the .level.•pirieut of the complaint is incipient or ina tun*. Not at once, of course, but with reason able promptitude. H -r.tter s Stomach Hitters will remove every symptom to which it gives rise, a- well as tl minor tn. Oodles that spring from it, among I hem indigestion and chrome biliousness. Front drenching cathartics it is vatu to hojie for permanent benefit, and there art* few purgatives that ace not violent and profuse in their opera tion. Dine pill and cnioinel are designed to act u;**.n tin* liver only, and taker, frequently are jK-rmi ions to health Tie* Hitters produced tclax iin n of .the bowels without pa n. and a renewal . •' their regularity. It ids., eonquers fever and agii". ilictimatwm, neuralgia and inactivity of lie* kidneys. . j A RAILROAD SMASH l|> A Fatal Collision In Which One Mani- Killed and Two Seriously In jured. —M A Wild Engine (rushes Into a I',:- M‘n ger Train and the Wreck Takes Fire. The Injured Men Are Taken to Madi son. Madison, Wis., Oct. 26. A serious colli sion occurred at 12:80 o’clock to-day on the Montfort branch of the Chicago i Northwestern railroad, which resulted in the death of one and injuring of four others, one of whom will probably die. The accident happened in a deep cut one mile east of Pine Bluff and fifteen miles west of this city. The collision was be tween a wild freight train to Milwaukee, which is due here at 1 o'clock. The track curves through the cut and the engineers, for this reason, could not discover the ap proach of either engine until there were almost upon each other. Both were going at the rate of about twenty tive miles an hour and they came togeth er with terrible force. The cut is a down grade either way. The wild nginc, had been used as a push to help the the ea f ' bound freight train np over the divide. I It is said tlie wild engine went down the | east grain and should have been aide | tracked at lliley, two miles east of tho ' scene of tlie accident, so as to wait for 1 the passenger train to puss it. The en gincer ot the wild freight, it is said, saw he had about !i minutes in which to back down to Pine Bluff, about two and one half miles, and thought he would chance it. The two engines came together as described in cut above. The engineer and fireman of the wild engine jumped, the engineer first revers ing his engine. The tender of the wild engine was run up on tho passenger en gine and was separated from the locomo five, and tho latter having been reversed started off eastward at a rapid rate with out anyone on it. It ran to Verona, six miles distant, where it was captured, hav ing exhausted its supply of steam. The tender of tho passenger engine was driv en back half way into the mail car, tele scoping it completely. The engine was badly wrecked. j ' i I j i I ; ( | I J J | | I j j I j ! j | i ! BP DEAD AND IN.TUBKK. The engineer, Thos. I) Man, of Lancas ter, was caught in his cab and pinned in n sitting position. His left thigh bone was badly fractured and should he live may require amputation. His head was badly scalded and his recovery is doubt fnl. Martin Comeford, of Madicon, hisfire man. was also caught. His left leg was injured and he was badly scalded. A man supposed to be Henry Schwenk, of Madison who was stealing a ride be tween tho mail car and tender, was crush ed to death, while Mail Agent CL \V. Lust ed, of Lancaster, had his head cut and was scalded somewhat. The steam and water escaped for about 10 minutes. En gineer Dolan and Firman Comfort could not bo seen or approached. TUK WIIECK TAKES EIltE. To add to tho horror of the occasion, the tender of mail oar caught tire and Dolan was rescued just in time to save him of being burned to death. Schwenk. when finally found, was burned to a crisp. The fireman of trie wild engine was in jured by jumping. The name of the en glneef and fireman of the wild engine cannot be learned, A wreck train with Dr. Boyd, of this city, was at once dispatched to the scene, and the injured and ihe body of Schwenk were brought to) this city. Dolan. Come ford and Busted are now at the hospital here where everything for their comfort is being done. Dolan, it is said, is in a serious condi tion and will probably die. He can tell nothing of the accident, but everything points to the fact that he stood nobly at Ids post, trying to stop the engine. It is said that tho blame attaches to the engi ueor of ths wild freight. The passengers were bad,y frightened and received a severe shaking up but none of them were injured. All the coaches remain'd on the track. Most of the mail was burned. Tlic Recruit Recovered His Bum Atlanta Constituiion. A good story is told on a young recruit who recently enlisted at Camp Hancock, near Atlanta. The young fellow joined the army while the country was threaten ing war with Mexico and he intended to i make a good soldier. One day ho was on I guard duty and was slowly stepping along when an oflicer approached. After the usual salute the officer said: I “Let roe see your gun.” ] The raw recruit handed over his Spring : field ritle and a pleased expression stole ! over his face. As the officer received the gun he said i in a tone of deepest disgust: “ You're a tine soldier I You’ve given lup your gun. and now what are you go i iug to do?” The young Atlantian turned pale and, 1 refl'iong for his pocket, drew a big six shooter, and. preparing for business, said in a voice that could not be mis , understood: "Gimme that gun or 111 blow a hole through you in a pair of minutes! - ( The officer decided not to ‘monkey ; any further with the raw recruit, and the ! gnu was promptly surrendered. The small boy who plays ctrcns with the "trick goat” in the backyard should see that the St. Jacobs Oil bottle is not i empty, Father Damon, a Catholic priest who has devoted himself to and lived among the lepers of Molokai, the island upon which are collected the lepers of tho Sandwich Island group, has himself be come a victim of leprosy; but he is calm and resigned to his fate, and considers s' the will of God. Perhaps it is, but it Ss equally the result of circumstances whig.: tend to show that the disease is coutw ious.—From Dr, Foote's Ilrolth Month, Michael StrogofT.” M Mr. O. C. Staley, while playing the hid ing part in “Xtichael Strogoff. r.tf.u,- land. Cal., became so hoarse fr° n W‘ se vere cold that he despaired of being able to continue his part. Two bottles ;>ed Star Cough Cure entirely cnrl||. him. Does not nauseate. _____ SKm Lawrence Banett last week /visited ; John E. Gwens it the latte.- a bo/ !U , near Baltimore,and found him n uchX ~roved in health. ,-WU